Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 41 (1806)
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Regiment on foot & name of owner |
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| active | 1715/1734/1741 to 1806 (surrender) |
| Country | Prussia |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Former locations | Wesel , from 1755 Minden ; Grenadiers always Magdeburg |
| Origin of the soldiers | since 1756 Grafschaft Mark , Grafschaft Ravensberg , Principality of Minden |
| owner | 1741 August Wilhelm Duke of Braunschweig-Bevern , 1741 Johann Volprecht Riedesel zu Eisenbach , 1746 Franz Karl Ludwig von Wied zu Neuwied , 1765 Matthias Ludwig von Lossow , 1782 Alexander Friedrich von Woldeck (from 1786: "Jung-Woldeck"), 1792 Karl Friedrich Gottlieb von Schladen , 1804 Karl Ernst Ludwig von Lettow |
| Tribe list | Old Prussian infantry regiments |
| Trunk number | No. 41 |
| Wars & major battles | Austrian War of Succession ; Seven Years War : Prague, Kolin, Kunersdorf, Liegnitz, Torgau; Coalition wars |
The infantry regiment with the later number No. 41 was a Prussian fusilier regiment. A first regiment was set up for the ducal Württemberg army as early as 1716 and then entered imperial service . In Prussian service since 1741, it was initially garrison garrison in Wesel and became a Westphalian field regiment in the 1950s .
General story
The origins of the regiment lay in the Württemberg army in a regiment decreed in 1715, Duke Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg Kaiser Karl VI. rented for the Venetian-Austrian Turkish War in 1716. In 1720 it was again subordinated to the Duke as the "Leib-Infanterie-Regiment". From the holdings of this regiment, another Subsidienregiment for the Imperial Army was formed in 1734 with the name "Prince Alexander". It took part in the War of the Polish Succession , returned to Württemberg in 1736, but became an imperial rental regiment again in 1737 and was in the garrison in Freiburg in front Austria. In 1740 it was ceded to Prussia. The swearing-in of the King in Prussia took place on May 2, 1740 in Lauffen am Neckar by Colonel Karl Erhard von Kalnein . Then the regiment was shipped to Wesel . In 1754 it came to the Prussian Principality of Minden . When Friedrich Wilhelm II took office , the fusilier regiment was renamed the infantry regiment. In 1806 it was given the number 41 in addition to the head of the regiment name.
Garrison, replacement and social conditions
From 1741 it belonged to the garrison of the Wesel Fortress . Its replacement takes place exclusively through advertising. It was not until 1756 that it became a field regiment and, since 1756, it was supplemented by recruits from the cantons in the Prussian-Westphalian territories, especially from the Principality of Minden , with the offices of Reineberg, Rahden, Leve Abbey, Hausberge, Petershagen, Schlüsselburg and from the towns Minden, Petershagen, Hausberge and Lübbeke.
evaluation
The regiment was considered one of the best in the fusilier group during the Seven Years' War . Immediat traffic , leave of absence payments and own advertising prove the esteem of the king even before the two Westphalian "regiments on foot" in the counties of Ravensberg and Mark .
Whereabouts and succession
The regiment was founded in 1806 as the Fusilier Regiment Lettow No. 41 dissolved in Hamelin through surrender.
Uniform, equipment
In the middle of the 18th century, the regimental uniform consisted of a blue uniform jacket with red cuffs and cuffs and yellow braids on the hips. The cap of the fusiliers and grenadiers was red with gold brass fittings. The regimental flag was beige.
See also
literature
- Hans Bleckwenn : The Frederician uniforms: 1753–1786 . In: The bibliophile paperbacks . No. 444. Hardenberg, Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-88379-444-9 (license from Biblio-Verl. Osnabrück as: The Old Prussian Army; Part 3, Vol. 3, 4 and 5). Volume II, p. 41ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Bleckwenn : The Frederician uniforms: 1753–1786 . In: The bibliophile paperbacks . No. 444. Hardenberg, Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-88379-444-9 (license from Biblio-Verl. Osnabrück as: The Old Prussian Army; Part 3, Vol. 3, 4 and 5). Volume II, p. 44.